Esther Alice (Brown) REED

REED, BROWN, TUCKER, STUBBLEFIELD, SCRIMPSHER, UTTERBACK, JAY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/27/2011 at 18:58:32

August 17, 1890 -- June 19, 1960

Rites in Texas for Mrs. Mark J. Reed

Funeral services will be today in McAllen, Tex., for Mrs. Esther A. Reed, 69, former Decatur resident who died at 11:35 a.m. Sunday in her home in McAllen. Mrs. Reed lived here from 1910 to 1945. She was born Aug. 17, 1890 in Rosehill, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Brown. She married Mark J. Reed in Decatur in 1910. She leaves her husband; daughters, Mildred Tucker and Jane Brown, both of Decatur; Gail Stubblefield, McAllen, Tex.; sons, Burrell F. Norwich, Conn.; Leon and David, both of Pharr, Tex.; brother, John P. Brown, Decatur; sisters, Mrs. Ida Scrimpsher, Decatur; Ethel Utterback, Atwood; Grace Jay, Loma Linda, Calif.; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Three brothers and one sister preceded her in death.

[husband Mark J. Reed, formerly of Corwith, Iowa]